--- title: KS3 War Poetry Anthology | KS3 Teaching Resource description: Download a KS3 anthology of war poems - 12 in total - including extracts from The Iliad, Beowulf and poems Drummer Hodge and the Last Post. image: https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/hubfs/KS3-War-Poetry-Anthology-800x445.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/ks3-war-poetry-anthology#main-content) [![DouglasWise_Logo2026 (1)](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/DouglasWise_Logo2026%20(1).png?width=500&height=144&name=DouglasWise_Logo2026%20(1).png)](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/) - [KS3 Resources](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/ks3-teaching-resources) Show submenu for KS3 Resources - [Prose](https://douglaswise.co.uk/blog/tag/prose) - [Poetry](https://douglaswise.co.uk/blog/tag/poetry) - [Drama](https://douglaswise.co.uk/blog/tag/drama) - [Non-Fiction](https://douglaswise.co.uk/blog/tag/non-fiction) - [Resource Bundles](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/teaching-resource-bundles) - [KS4 Resources](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/ks4-teaching-resources) Show submenu for KS4 Resources - 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Extract from *The Iliad*, by Homer 2. Extract from *Beowulf*, by unknown poet 3. ‘Drummer Hodge’, by Thomas Hardy 4. ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’, by Rose Macaulay 5. ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, by Siegfried Sassoon 6. ‘Strange Meeting’, by Wilfred Owen 7. ‘Last Post’, by Carol Ann Duffy 8. ‘MCMXIV’, by Philip Larkin 9. ‘Pluck’, by Eva Dobell 10. ‘Platform One’, by Ted Hughes 11. ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, by Randall Jarrell 12. ‘Flag’, by John Agard ![Picture 1-Jun-16-2024-05-55-34-5543-PM](https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Picture%201-Jun-16-2024-05-55-34-5543-PM.jpg?width=750&height=467&name=Picture%201-Jun-16-2024-05-55-34-5543-PM.jpg) I’ve also included some decent wider reading at the end. 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